Blaine County

Blaine County is a county of the U.S. state of California, with its capital at Paleto Bay. It was incorporated into the state of California after the Mexican-American War, and currently remains a land filled with the remains of the frontier; it is filled with wilderness, desert, and mountains, with a few settlements and oil facilities, while its southern neighbor the County of Los Santos is nearly all the city of Los Santos and a highly-modernized city.

History
Blaine County was named for Thomas Blaine, an American frontiersman who helped to explore and settle the land in 1823. The Mexican city of Los Santos was founded in 1788 to the south, and Blaine County was sparsely inhabited. But with the influx of American settlers, the region began to fester with "rednecks" and towns such as Paleto Bay, Grapeseed, and Sandy Shores sprung up as the Grand Senora Desert became urbanized.

During the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 the lands of Blaine County were nominally under Mexican rule, but rebels under Blaine captured Paleto and founded the new land as a part of the Republic of California. The lands soon joined the United States along with the other regions loyal to the Bear Flag Rebels of California, and Blaine County's population increased.

During the 21st century, Blaine County became an area primarily inhabited by meth farmers and rednecks. RON Oil Company opened a few oil facilities in the desert to mine precious California oil from the lands, while the Sandy Shores area was turned into a trailer park. Paleto Bay and Grapeseed were some of the few areas of the county that were still made up of houses, and Paleto Bay was very small. In addition to these civilized areas, there is also Fort Zancudo on Lake Zancudo, which pours out through the river Zancudo into the Pacific Ocean. It is a military airbase with a restricted airspace that stretches out into the ocean, and it serves in the role of also stopping air smuggling of drugs. In 2013 the biker gang The Lost MC waged turf warfare with criminal Trevor Philips, who single-handedly wiped out The Lost bikers, the Varrios Los Aztecas street gang and drug cartel, and the O'Neill Brothers family meth enterprise.